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Creating Healing Spaces, The Process Of Designing Holistically A Battered Women Shelter, Lilian Menéndez
Creating Healing Spaces, The Process Of Designing Holistically A Battered Women Shelter, Lilian Menéndez
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
My interest in the environment has led me to study the effects of space on people, both natural and man-made. This project explores how architects and designers can design spaces conducive to the healing process. The emphasis of this thesis is on my design methodology, with the hope that this project will help other designers in their struggle to create spaces that heal the body, soul and spirit.
To develop this project, I chose a shelter for battered women as the building type. This shelter is theoretically located in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Its main goal is to create an environment …